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paint on the saxophone him stone on the bass J.
Poorest on the drum and vocals names that Mr Lionel Young has played with
a clue can't basi Stevie Wonder Jimmy Page and Mr Plant.
Living Color litter Ronstadt homesick James Oh I was very impressed that you got
a list man you got
a list All right we're going to we're in for some great music from this band and
working with the best of all is I think that their stories they're great music
all right I'm counting on you to give you some love and appreciation for their
beautiful set of music coming your way right now it is blues to do T.V.
Here on Thursday night at eighty eight keys and the Lionel young band give up plays
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said I've got to have something gotta. Gotta have something.
To say I got do. You know there's something wrong.
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Well what do you guys do what do you guys what are you guys doing we're trying to
ever show you what is what is going right away just what.
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the trails later the gentleman. If you ever.
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You know. We've got Scott Simmons on the bass.
Give it up for Scott great bass player. On the draw. Favorites.
Favorites. Like Cadillac that's. On the keyboards.
You like it loud don't you. What is that. Why do you think.
It's smokin hot but that what let's talk about your gear first because you've got
good stuff good idea what's that amp Let's start there is
a black faced silver pay seventy four flames come out of that thing.
As it loud. But it's one of the quiet around so I have those why brother can I But
about this Telecaster everything I do is fake oh oh oh. Oh my leg
is this is gold a relic my leg is
a relic going to it's what year I mean that always means something
else raise that thing up that's when you've got to stay in care of it
OK what about this one what about that that was your favorite I can tell less
organized is that they reissued these are actually this is you it's
a tribute one nine hundred sixty and ever since my mom took me into the
first music store when I was probably eight years old nine took me in to buy me
a trumpet gold tops it and what I want ever to ever since I only got one because
a cheap lesson of the gloss Well that opens up a door what about your mom is there
a person in your life that opened up music for you like that was it Mom or would
you tell me Mom and I answer yeah your aunts two of them and I went with
a piano player singer but was going to singers piano players not professionally
played the radio D.J.
. You know ever since I was young to years old I developed
my own turntable in the kitchen with Mom's mixmaster. So you were
serious at home about you know and you know I was I was already a D.J.
To plan my own platters and which they literally were platters and but I don't know
about four years old the piano on my mom walked in the living room one day and she
says it was planned sitting at the piano playing which is
a dream where did you learn math and I said off the T.V.
Are you listening American band.
So your mom had
a lot to do with you getting into music what about guitar was there
a particular person that said this is the instrument and it opened your mind up.
And I just want my didn't have
a girlfriend I wanted one. OK And I got my brother was
a big musical influence on me and he bought me my first guitar Sears Roebuck
and that will go that was a great heiress and I was
a harmony Silvertone harmony. Twelve ninety five years old and they're keepers man
they're keepers he bought me the that's what got me started so change your life
pretty much big brother just like it's a big brother yes you also talked about
a couple of record albums that changed your life the Bloomfield Cooper LP double
live. That was
a big one when I worked couple of those did that you did Bloomfield influence your
guitar playing. I I don't know you know I was so into fusion and jazz at the
time that I wasn't but I never listen to guitar players anyway to learn from my
early on when all of typical stuff but yeah. Later
on it was. Mostly drummers piano players in trouble players which I quit
playing trumpet but that's what I listen to so do you play more the guitar I'm
sorry you play more than a guitar. Bass and just
a tiny bit of keyboards play everything don't you. That we hate people like you
just got. So you're
a musical mongrel as you describe yourself yeah many styles many styles many
instruments you do this full time and you guys and all you guys do full time how.
So what's with you Dean I repair office chairs during the day I'm
a bust your chops on that many people in this thing full time I'm sorry my right
can I hear you say yeah yeah I knew you were there Peter Food and Drug Act with
Harvey Mandela and Don sugarcane Harris I remember that I remember you remember
that for me OK you know I don't know if it was recorded right here in Seattle that
was the name of the place K.
Smith or something no it was
a tavern attack off of forty five right up forty fifth and I find the Blue Moon had
to be the Blue Moon Over the Rainbow the fabulous red with might have been the Ram
Dass had to be the path of this rainbow tavern my souls on fire that I wasn't there
when there was this it was the families it had to be that they have this rainbow OK
So let's talk about we talk but what about your songs you have
a couple of originals you started with this is over spoon song that's personal
isn't it could be I'm not going there. Hanging on is useless
most of it most of all it's painful that's
a true yeah yeah I got some truth in there that I was and that was all about how i
was written about two years ago in Vegas and after some stuff happened you spent
some time being is my payback I think that was my payback Oh come back Sept so
you know you know I'm carrying a grudge you don't care what I don't carry
a grudge thirty nine days that's another original. OK
You wrote that one I don't remember oh I busted it Mike somebody are doing it
I love your arrangement of Crossroads tell me how you got to that. Just through
about four five six different arrangements of just actually rehearsal we came up
with the drum group. And it always starts with
a drummer does other day. Oh no I'm.
I'm just saying without me it's just folk music. Dave Jedi now date the city
without your shoes and you always play naked no doubt and why was there
someone who taught you that or something it's just I grew up in Texas it's hot you
know that's just one last piece of clothing you know. There's so many more
questions I could dig into from that. Are you are you going to the I.P.C.
Finals is that what I heard we have advanced to yes finals Yeah it's gnomish
Yeah so you made the first cut as it were for the International Blues Challenge
everybody trying to go to Memphis these days and you guys got
a good chance with this band big show coming up on August nineteenth in snow home
in James King. And this outsiders Rafael's going to
be there so that's
a how did you get into playing the bass I mean. I just grew up in
a musical family and that was the the chair that needed to be filled so yeah but I
kind of learned by watching and played church you know there was
a B three in front of me and taking piano lessons when I was six years old so the
man said watch my feet so I watched his plate keys with his feet and I knew the
notes and so that's all
a lot of the notes on the bass the one four five four came out right at the feet
there I can relate to that I grew up with
a mom doing or going to church in the same thing I was down there at her feet
totally you know that story first hand so how old were you then oh I was probably
early teens. And I played drums in high school went to college and then.
Well now when did you get into this professionally Where did you know you had to do
it professionally. Electrician by trade so that's always treated me you know I've
always had that but. Played you know from twenty years old it was pretty busy
in there when I moved up in this area and been very busy the last fifteen years or
so in this area yeah you also say Steve as well as play the keyboards and you have
to nor over there you know north I've seen
a north before but never have I seen someone with two north this is the brand of
keyboard I'm talking about these are great they sound like
a Hammond organ and tell me about your your gear there they really do an
outstanding job
a Swedish company the bottom keyboard just as Hammond B three and other words it
does parties a cheesy talian organs from the sixty's and also does
a really good pipe organ but mainly B three is what people use and work and you
know the top keyboard does beat three as well but you you have waited keys for the
piano and you can't play the B three on the piano because you have to do all the
smears and these run ups and it's just
a whole nother action so that's that's why I drag around so much gear it to be more
authentic Well you do this full time what got you into the keyboards you know it's
funny you listen to the Dean's story I've never really talked to him about that but
really similar My mom played just played by ear and we always had
a piano in the house you know five or six I just you know picked it up going to
have
a good ear for it. Never really took lessons I just kind of always you know learned
after Eckard and back in the old days you could check out big records from the
library you know and check those out learn like you know classical song whatever I
can find
a way to go well you got the chops never unless I'm so sorry.
That's right we both grew up in Vancouver Washington well for you to never mental
up here and you didn't know that about oh what
a ten minute interview will do that's right. Steve Thorpe on the keyboards I could
ask you some more questions but run out of time for Dave Jerry on the drums I love
you man Scott Simmons on the bass you can find Dave and Steve in the
Jonathan Harris band No I'm sorry Dave and Scott in the Jon Benet tree band but
this is the dean right Dean record guitar it's called those better live.
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